Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-18
WHOLE NO. ll,l55.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate APpropriates Seventy Ave
Millions for Pensions.
" telegraph to she RECoID-UNIos.

Millions for Pensions.
by telegraph to the RECORD UNIoNI
WASHINGTON, January 17th.-In the Sem
ate Hoar, from the Committee on Centen.
NAL Celebration OF the Constitution, re-
ported resolution that it is expected that
the centennial anniversary Inauguration or
the Constitution wiz be celebrated in April.
1889, by an address to be delivered before
the President of the United States and the
two Houses of Congress, by the Chief JUS
tice OF the United States. to which repre-
sentatlyes OF foreign Governments shall be
invited, and that the OCCASION will be
further celebrated by su7table civic or mill
tary observanees, the detSils thereof to be
settled hereafter. Adopted
Edmunds called attention to the bill in
troduced by him and referred to the Post
office Committee, providing for a Govern
ment postal telegraphy. He wished the
committee TO report it, either fayorably or
unfavorably, so that he might try to get
the Judgment of the Senate upon it.
The Senate bill for the survey of certain
public land in Oregon was reported and put
on the calendar
On motion of Sawyer. the Senate pro-
ceeded TO consider and pass the pension
bills on The calendar. Forty pension bills
(pr:ncipally House bills) were passed, and
then the pension appropriation bill (appro-
priating $75,000,000) was taken up and
passed. with only immatssial amend-
mepts.
The. army appropriation bill was then
taken up. The bill was passed, with few
unimportant amendments.
The Senate bill TO establish agricultural
experiment stations in connection with an
Agricultural College was taken up as un-
finished business.
ingalls, characterized the bill as exceed
ingly crude and imperfect.
Vest said that he could not understand the
difference between this bill and the Blair
educational bill, except that one provided
for general education and the other for
agricultural education. The objections TO
the Blair bill applied with equal force to
this bill.
Butler said he could see a wide distinc-
ton between this bill (which he fayored)
and the Blair educational bill
Without action on the bill the Senate
adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, January 18th. - In the
House, under call of the States, the follow
ing bills were introduced
By Morrow of misunderstanding that
suits by the United States 10 vacate and
annul any land patent shall not be brought
after ten years after the date of causance of
such patent.
BY Robertson of Kentucky (by request)-
To regulate prosecutions against Indians
for crimes committed in Territories.
By Findley of MARYLAND (by request)-
To make gold and silver coin jointly legal
tender, to authorize the issue of legal
tender certificates for half gold coin
and half silver coin, and to provide
fund for redeemipg Treasury notes, and
that coin reserves of National Banks shall
be held onehalf in gold coin and one-haif
in silver coin.
BY Lowering of Massachusetts-Gran
a pension of S25 month to Walt Whit
man. Lowering stated that Whitman had
made no application for pension, but that
the bill was introduced at the request of a
number of the poets friends.
AtBy Herman of OregOn-Proposing con-
stitutional amendments for the election of
United States Senators by the people
By Randall of Penpsylvania-For the ap-
pointment of commission to represent the
United States Government on the Constitu-
tional Centennial Commission.
By Ballentine of Tennessee-Fort the con-
struction of a cruising vessel of war of
twenty knots speed.
By Anderson of Kansas-Calling upon
the Attorney General for information as to
the legal authority under which Directors
of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
consolidated that company with the Kansas
Pacific and Denver Pacific and reorganized
the same under the name of Union Pacific
Railway Company.
The call of States having been concluded,
Townshend of Illinois called up, as un-
finished business, the motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill for the protec-
ton of innocent purchasers of patented
articles.
Crisp of Georgia, as a matter of privilege,
called for the conference report on the inter
state commerce bill.
This action aroused the antagonism of
the friends of the patent bill and of the
general pension bills, which were booked
TO follow it, and Anderson of Kansas raised
the question of consideration against the
conference report.
The House refused-yeas 113, nays 1877
to consider the interstate commerce bill re-
port, and proceeded TO vote upon Towns
hend's motion. The motion was lost-yeas
so, nays l56.
Watson of Indiana, on behalf of the
Committee on Invalid Pensions, moved to
suspend the rules and pass the bill for the
relief of dependent parents and honorably
discharged soldiers and sailors who are
now disabled and dependent upon their
own labor Tor support.
The bill was passed-yeas I79, nays
76
Edredge of Michigan, on behalf of the
Committee on Pensions, moved that the
rules be suspended and the House concur
in the Senate amendment to the Mexican
pension bill.
The motion was agreed to-yeas 243
nays 5. The bill now only requires the
Presidential approval 10 become a law 1t
provides that a pension of IS per month
shall be paid TO ali surviv ng officers and
enlisted men, including marines, militia
and volunteers of the military and naval
services of the United States. who had been
enlisted ana actually served sixty DAYS in
Mexico or on the coasts or frontiers there
of, or en- route thereto or in war with that
nation or were actually engaged in battle
in said war and were honorably discharged:
and to such officers, soldiers and sailors as
may have been personally named in any
resolution of Congress for any special
service in said war, aud surviving widows
of such officers and enlisted men pro-
vided, that such widows have not re-mar-
ried, and provided that such officer, en-
listed man or widow who is or has become
81 years of age, or who is or may become
subject to any disability or dependency
equivalent 10 some cause prescribed or
recognized by the pension laws OF the
United States as sufficient reason for the
allowance of pension, shall be emitted to
the benefits of this Act. But it shall not
be held to include any person not within
the rule of age, or disability, or dependency
herein defined, or who incurred such dis-
ability while in any manner volun arily
engaged in aiding OF abetiing the late re-
bellion against the authority of the United
States
A New GOLD FIELD.-A dispatch from
Washington says: Consul Figgelmesy,
writing from Demerara, under the date Of
December 9ih. SAYS there is great devel-
opment in GOLD miniu1 in British Gu;apa